About this Assignment
For this assignment, we were directed to choose a text out of our textbook for the class. I chose "Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids" by Grant Penrod (Norton, 754). After we selected our text, we were to analyze it and respond to it with our own opinion.
For this assignment, we were directed to choose a text out of our textbook for the class. I chose "Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids" by Grant Penrod (Norton, 754). After we selected our text, we were to analyze it and respond to it with our own opinion.
Purpose, Audience, Genre
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a text of our choice and state our own opinion regarding the text itself. I believe I succeeded at this assignment by backing up my opinion with my own personal experiences. Audience: The audience of this essay would probably be high school students, but anybody would be able to read it and follow along. Genre: The genre of this essay is more along the lines of an argument. According to our textbook for this class, an argumentative essay needs the following: a clear and arguable position, necessary background info, good reasons, convincing evidence, it has to appeal to readers' values, trustworthy tone, and careful consideration of other positions. I think I included all requirements of this essay:
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Evaluation of Essay
Our assignment for this essay was to analyze a text of our choice and respond with our own opinion. We were to analyze this text based on a certain criteria and form our response as an essay. The easiest part of the essay for me was being able to include my own personal experiences while being a high school student. I felt like the way I grew up in high school was totally different than the experiences of the author of the text that I am responding to. |
Revision Notes
This essay was my best grade beside the grade of my Research paper. I was surprisingly proud of myself for not making as many errors as I thought I did. After the first revision from my peers, I decided to add a little more to each of my body paragraphs - especially more information on my personal experiences. I tried to focus on my grammar mistakes and sentence structure - looks like I succeeded in doing that!! |